Tell about history of Mathematics ?

Equally 2 cubed is the volume of a cube with 2 as the length of each dimension.

The first surviving examples of geometrical and algebraic calculations derive from Babylon and Egypt in about 1750 BC.

Of the two Babylon is far more advanced, with quite complex algebraic problems featuring on cuneiform tablets.

A typical Babylonian maths question will be expressed in geometrical terms, but the nature of its solution is essentially algebraic (see a Babylonian maths question).

Since the numerical system is unwieldy, with a base of 60, calculation depends largely on tables (sums already worked out, with the answer given for future use), and many such tables survive on the tablets.

Egyptian mathematics is less sophisticated than that of Babylon

; but an entire papyrus on the subject survives. Known as the Rhind papyrus, it was copied from earlier sources by the scribe Ahmes in about 1550 BC.

It contains brainteasers such as problem 24: - What is the size of the heap if the heap and one seventh of the heap amount to 19?

Pythagoras: 6th century BC

Ancient mathematics has reached the modern world largely through the work of Greeks in the classical period, building on the Babylonian tradition.

A leading figure among the early Greek mathematicians is Pythagoras.

In about 529 BC Pythagoras moves from Greece to a Greek colony at Crotona, in the heel of Italy.

There he establishes a philosophical sect based on the belief that numbers are the underlying and unchangeable truth of the universe.

He and his followers soon make precisely the sort of discoveries to reinforce this numerical faith.

The Pythagoreans can show, for example, that musical notes vary in accordance with the length of a vibrating string;

whatever length of string a lute player starts with, if it is doubled the note always falls by exactly an octave (still the basis of the scale in music today).

The followers of Pythagoras are also able to prove that whatever the shape of a triangle,

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its three angles always add up to the sum of two right angles (180 degrees).

Euclid and Archimedes: 3rd century BC

Euclid teaches in Alexandria during the reign of Ptolemy. No details of his life are known, but his brilliance as a teacher is demonstrated in the Elements, his thirteen books of geometrical theorems.

Many of the theorems derive from Euclid's predecessors (in particular Eudoxus),

but Euclid presents them with a clarity which ensures the success of his work.

It becomes Europe's standard textbook in geometry, retaining that position until the 19th century.

Soon after language develops, it is safe to assume that humans begin counting - and that fingers and thumbs provide nature's abacus

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Mathematics, like painting, music, literature, has a long history.